Big Beach Developing Halloween-Themed Musical Comedy From Nneka Onuorah & Christina Nieves

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EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach is developing and will produce a new musical comedy based on an original idea from Nneka Onuorah (Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words), who will direct from a script by Christina Nieves (Generation).

Currently untitled, the film is set in the present-day South, watching as a young woman’s reality is turned inside out when a school project unveils a powerful history of magic and sorcery in her family.

Facing an ancient enemy bent on her destruction, she must learn to harness her own newly discovered mystical powers to protect her family.

Big Beach partners Michael B. Clark and Tim Foley explained that Onuorah approached them with “a vision for a new kind of Halloween film – one that mashes up the power of identity, the legacy of our ancestors, and the energy of youth – all stirred with the same pop-driven brilliance that she brought to her work with Meg and Lizzo.” For her first narrative feature, they continued, “it made perfect sense to pair her with Christina, whose writing we knew and loved from her work on our show VIDA.